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Species Piezogaster calcarator

Squash Bug - Piezogaster calcarator - male

Leaf-footed Bug, female - Piezogaster calcarator - female

Leaf-footed Bug - Piezogaster calcarator

stink bug family? - Piezogaster calcarator - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Pentatomomorpha

Superfamily Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Nematopini

Genus Piezogaster

Species calcarator (Piezogaster calcarator)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Piezogaster alternatus (Say 1825) [synonymy confirmed in(1)(2)]

Explanation of Names

Piezogaster calcarator (Fabricius 1803)

Size

17-21 mm (Dealy 2000)

Range

e US to CO (NY-FL to MN-CO) - Map (3)(4)

Print References

Dealy B. (2000) A revision of the genus Piezogaster Amyot & Serville (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Nematopodini) and the description of two new species. M.Sc. Thesis, Fort Hays State University, Kansas. iii + 121 pp. (scribd link, Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs, of the New World Richard Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays State University.

2.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

3.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 29 November, 2005 - 3:24pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 22 June, 2023 - 8:37pm

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